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05 Aug 2010, 8:33 am

Its not even 10:00am where I'm living and it says there is 49 new members today. Usually in 24 hours you only have 30 something new members. I thought it was a glitch but I checked the members list and it looks like its not a glitch. Coincidence? Did someone use multiple emails and make multiple accounts?

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05 Aug 2010, 8:59 am

hello too all of them.

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05 Aug 2010, 9:00 am

Whoa... 50 now... Maybe a lot of them are European or Australian or something. (It's 4 PM here.)

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05 Aug 2010, 11:16 am

Could be bots.

Mass registrations usually occur when something like this happens:
http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/ ... 00025.html

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05 Aug 2010, 11:44 am

Yeah, I'm betting that many of them are bots.

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05 Aug 2010, 6:39 pm

I welcome them all to WrongPlanet, nonetheless.

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05 Aug 2010, 6:40 pm

ShenLong wrote:

Yeah, I'm betting that many of them are bots.

How much are you willing to bet?

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05 Aug 2010, 11:49 pm

Maybe there's going to be a small wave of trolls.

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06 Aug 2010, 12:23 am

we're one of the few forums that make it easy for trolls to join. plus controversial threads don't seem to be moderated as much as on other forums.

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06 Aug 2010, 12:55 am

Hodor wrote:

ShenLong wrote:

Yeah, I'm betting that many of them are bots.

How much are you willing to bet?

1600 Khmer Riel

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06 Aug 2010, 1:04 am

yeah, i noticed . crazy.
I've been getting spam-messages from bots lately. Maybe it's just bots

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06 Aug 2010, 6:10 am

Praetor has made 50 new sockpuppets?

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06 Aug 2010, 6:47 am

blue_bean wrote:

Praetor has made 50 new sockpuppets?

That's probably what it is, according to this, there has been 69 new members yesterday.
After all, that would be bizarre if anyone could do that?

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06 Aug 2010, 12:11 pm

Maybe some kind of major AS/autism group just found out about this place
Or maybe it's create a new account day. Why didn't you guys tell me

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06 Aug 2010, 1:05 pm

Do old accounts get deleted about as fast as new accounts get started? I've noticed that since I've been here, the total membership base has been in the higher 30k. It seems like we should have broke the 40k mark at the rate of new accounts by now.

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06 Aug 2010, 1:42 pm

takemitsu wrote:

It just messes up the database deleting inactive members, I have no idea why though? But at the rate this is going, it might take about 2 or 3 months to get there, just predicting.

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